Transience & Presence with Julie Williams Dixon and Paul Wanta
Transience & Presence with Julie Williams Dixon and Paul Wanta
Join us via Zoom Wednesday, March 5th, 7 pm EST
Join Julie Williams Dixon and Paul Wanta for a Between Bodies-inspired conversation about transience and presence. Both Julie and Paul submitted portfolios that featured both ancient and ever-changing bodies of water. In Between transience and eternity: one afternoon at the river, Julie Williams Dixon pondered the transience of her physical body in juxtaposition to ancient surroundings while Paul Wanta’s ongoing project In This Place celebrates the intimate, familiar, and fleeting landscapes near his home in Wendell, Massachusetts.
Together, we will explore how photography can capture the ancient and the immediate, and how presence bridges the profane and the sacred.
Julie Williams Dixon is a filmmaker and photographer who splits her time between city life in Raleigh, NC and the Appalachian Mountains of western NC and southwest VA. Her work moves seamlessly from documentary to portraiture to landscape and nature imagery. After an award-winning career spanning more than 40 years, she’s elated to have more time to make art exactly how she wants to.
Paul Wanta is a photographer, writer and wildlife tracker living in Wendell, Massachusetts. Nature-based imagery is central to his practice, with a current focus primarily on one area, stream, and tree. In addition to his photography practice, writing is essential to how he contemplates his relationships with his immediate surroundings. For Paul, the image itself is a showing, and by combining words and images, both are deepened.
